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Re: Documentation/git-checkout.txt: Inconsistent naming of paths arguments

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2013, 07:40 UTC
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Adam Brengesjö <ca.brengesjo@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From SYNOPSIS:
>
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>…]
>
>
> From DESCRIPTION
>
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>…
>
>
>
> 1. Named <paths> in SYNOPSIS, but <pathspec> in DESCRIPTION. (It's
> referred to as <path> in the body text).
>
> 2. <paths> is marked as optional in SYNOPSIS, but <pathspec> is not.
>
> I'm not submitting a patch now, as I'm not sure which is correct.

If I'm not mistaken, "git checkout" takes pathspec in all cases. -- Duy

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